After another Royal TS release and an introductory label sampler, Aggro Berlin issued Der Neger (In Mir) (2002), a CD-EP by B-Tight it addressed his mixed race, picturing him in blackface with a gun to his head on the cover. (i.e., a provocative acronym for Alles Ist die Sekte, formerly Die Sekte), followed by a 12" single for "Das Mic und Ich" (2001), also an A.i.d.S. The first Aggro Berlin release was Alles Ist die Sekte (2001), a self-titled CD-EP by A.i.d.S.
A few underground releases followed - Sintflows (credited to Die Sekte, 1999), Back in Dissniss (Royal TS, 2000), B-Tight Seine Album (a solo album, 2000) - before the formation of Aggro Berlin, a self-run independent label. They made their recording debut as a duo, though, when the underground hip-hop label Royal Bunker released the cassette Wissen Flow Talent (1998), credited to Royal TS ("Royal" for the name of the label, "TS" for the duo's initials). It was in this environment that B-Tight grew up, along with Sido, his Aggro Berlin comrade.ī-Tight and Sido formed a neighborhood rap collective, Die Sekte, in 1997.
It took approximately a decade (1963-1974) to construct Märkisches Viertel, and many of the high-rises had to be refurbished beginning in the mid-'80s due to deterioration. Planned during the early '60s by GeSoBau (Gesellschaft für Sozialen Wohnungsbau, or in English, Association for Social Apartment Construction) as a satellite city in a rural section of northern Berlin, near the Wall separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Märkisches Viertel is defined by its enormous apartment high-rises, which are uniform in design and were intended to remedy social-urban problems.
Märkisches Viertel is notable for its influence upon B-Tight in terms of identity. Born Robert Edward Davis on December 28, 1979, in Palm Springs, CA, B-Tight (aka B!Tight, Der Neger, Bobby Dick) grew up in Märkisches Viertel, a poverty-ridden locality in the borough of Reinickendorf in Berlin. Affiliated with the controversial Aggro Berlin hardcore rap collective, B-Tight arose from poverty to become one of Germany's most infamous rappers, attaining fame and commercial success via hard-hitting streetwise raps about sex, drugs, riches, race, and other such provocative subjects.
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